Chicago locals headed to Rome for Pope Leo XIV's installation ceremony 02:20. It still may be hard to believe, but the new ...

Many sites associated with past popes have become museums or holy destinations for the faithful. But Pope Leo XIV’s childhood ...

Chicago’s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo’s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities ...

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

Prevost, a member of the Augustinian religious order, lived for years in Peru first as a missionary and then as an archbishop ...

The new pontiff and Bernard Hebda, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, have exchanged letters but ...

Vatican City — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City Thursday as the world gathered to watch a new pope take ...

Two Albany Catholic Diocese leaders spoke to reporters shortly after Pope Leo XIV made his first appearance in Vatican City's ...

Among the thousands of faithful celebrating in the square the election of the new pope were many from the United States, some ...

Catholic Charities of Chicago uses a lobbying firm that supports pro-abortion politicians and represents abortion providers, ...